The Old Farm House Pike Road Tilmanstone Dover CT15 4DJ Data via plota.co.uk

25/01069 - Full Planning Permission Refused

Proposal

Erection of a dwelling with associated parking and landscaping (self-build) Data via plota.co.uk

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Application progress

✓
Received
28 Sept 2025
✓
Validated
19 Nov 2025
✓
Consultation
28 Nov 2025
✗
Refused
12 Mar 2026
Appeal
Not lodged

Refused on 12 Mar 2026 · Delegated · Last checked 8 Oct 2026

Site constraints 5

Public footpath 12 m away
Matters where it crosses or adjoins the site: obstructing a path without a diversion order is an offence, and work cannot start until the order is confirmed.
Compiled from highway authority data, not the legal definitive map. A few authorities have not published, so no path shown is not proof there is none.
Agricultural land, grade 3a
Best and most versatile land (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Source: the Predictive Agricultural Land Classification Map (Defra and Natural England, 2025; the Welsh Government's Predictive ALC Map 2 in Wales), a model rather than a site survey. Natural England's Provisional ALC map (1:250,000, 1970s), which most planning maps still show, had this area as grade 2. The predicted grade is Defra's current estimate; only a site survey settles it.
Where development of farmland is needed, policy prefers poorer land over the best and most versatile (grades 1, 2 and 3a). Three sources: Natural England's post-1988 field surveys, which are definitive where they exist; the Defra predictive map for England (2025) and the Welsh Government predictive map, modelled from the soil map with 3a and 3b split; and the 1970s provisional map, which planners and other services still show, coarser and with grade 3 undivided. Where the provisional and predicted grades disagree, treat the predicted grade as the current estimate and expect an application to carry its own survey.
Habitat network: Network Expansion Zone
Where habitat is joined up enough to work as a network. Context, not a constraint on its own.
Radon affected area, class 6
An estimated 30% or more of homes reach the radon action level. Indicative for the 1 km square, which takes the highest class found in it; a radon test gives the answer for a building.
From the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency indicative atlas. Under building regulations, as the BRE guide BR 211 (2023) sets out, new buildings and extensions need basic radon protection from class 3 in England and Wales and from class 2 in Scotland, and full protection from class 5. The class at the site itself, from the detailed BGS map, decides which.
UKHSA radon ↗
Also on the record
Coalfield, development low risk area.
Not affected
Outside flood zones 2 and 3 · Not green belt · No listed building at the site

Checked on 8 October 2026. Historic England, the Environment Agency, Natural England, the Mining Remediation Authority, the British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency (radon, contains BGS materials © UKRI) and council datasets, Open Government Licence. A boundary can run through a site and the council holds the definitive record: confirm with the council before relying on this.

Sales history 1

Last sold for £219,000 in August 1999. Detached house, freehold.

27 August 1999£219,000

Sale prices from HM Land Registry's price paid record, matched to this application by its address.

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Important details

Council
Dover
Application type
Full Planning Permission
Postcode
CT15 4DJ
Received
28 Sept 2025
Validated
19 Nov 2025
Ward
Eastry Rural
Parish
TILMANSTONE
Case officer
Show
Target decision
12 Mar 2026
Decision
Refuse Planning Permission
Decision date
12 Mar 2026
Decision level
Delegated
Applicant
Show
Agent
Archway Design Services Ltd

How this decision compares

Decided in 113 days from validation, 58 days slower than Dover's median of 55 for full applications. Refused, as 9% of full applications here are.

76%decided within 8 weeks
91%approved
363decided in the last year

Plota live figures for full applications decided by Dover in the last twelve months, from validation. Dover decision record →

Public comments

4comments received
3 objecting1 neutral

75% object · above the UK average of 74%

4 neighbours consulted · Last counted 8 Oct 2026

Read the comments on the council site ↗

Consultation & key dates

Site or press notice
28 Nov 2025
Statutory expiry
14 Jan 2026
Env. assessment
No
Dover
Planning Authority Score
7.4/10
Good
#46 of 296 councils
Relevant to this application:
Householder decisions

Dover is one of the fastest councils in England for householder decisions, ranking #28 out of 296. Householder applications are slightly more likely to be approved here (92%) than the national average (90%).

Among the fastest councils in England
for householder decisions
These figures are council-wide context, not a prediction for this application. View full council performance
Dover decision statistics
Based on MHCLG data, the year to March 2026
88%
Overall approval rate
Above avg (87%) #151 of 296
92%
Householder approved
Above avg (90%) #151 of 296
83%
Decided in 8 weeks
Above avg (63%) #28 of 296
31%
Extended time limit
Below avg (41%) #57 of 296
72%
Minor dwellings approved
105 decided (1-9 homes)
83%
Major dwellings approved
18 decided (10+ homes)
82%
Change of use approved
56 decided
772
Total decisions
89 refused in the year to March 2026

Sale prices: Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.